First post, by badmojo
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I spent a very enjoyable day yesterday reconfiguring my home office / man cave to allow me to properly install my recently purchased Logitech Z906 5.1 surround system. Going through that process has left me curious to see how other people have set up their systems, or if indeed many people are going to the trouble of setting one up at all. The main challenge of course is getting the satellites mounted in an appropriate location relative to the listener. Initially I tried sitting them on top of my retro PC station, which happened to be directly behind the PC I was using the Z906’s on. The height was about right but they were too far away and too close to each other, so there wasn’t enough stereo separation. You can of course adjust the level of individual speakers which overcomes an incorrectly placed speaker to some extent, but there’s no substitute for having it placed at the correct height and angle.
By flipping my desk around I was able to wall mount the satellites in whatever position I chose, and after much research and measuring and indecision I settled on a height and distance from each other. Most of the advice I read online suggested mounting them at or above seated head height (for a THX system), and most diagrams had them pointing towards the listener. The rears are also placed further apart than the front speakers, again based on advice. I found a really nice conduit system at the local hardware store to hide the wiring and I had a set of wall brackets from a previous system I had years ago.
I’m really pleased with the result. The surround effect is very pronounced now - I can clearly hear sound positions but at the same time there aren’t dead spots where sounds noticeably jump from back to front. It was a decent amount of work and you can go a long way with a quality set of 2.1’s or headphones, but proper surround on a game that implements it well is pretty damn amazing.
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